Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Michael Cooney.

When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you’ll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9,000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future.

Trying to get through it all can be daunting so we’ve tried to simplify that process by distilling a variety of Gartner ITxpo presentations and coming up with the most salient information. So here goes. From the Gartner analysts, presentations on:…

The world of IT

• Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 3.8% increase from 2012’s projected spending of $3.6 trillion, but it’s the outlook for big data that is creating much excitement. That’s because by 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States. Big data creates a new layer in the economy which is all about information, turning information, or data, into revenue. In 2013, big data is forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending.

Most of the current spending is used in adapting traditional solutions to the big data demands — machine data, social data, widely varied data, unpredictable velocity, and so on — and only $4.3 billion in software sales will be driven directly by demands for new big data functionality in 2012…

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